I Just Believe In A Huge Universe

Never Do Things For Money. It's Always The Things You Do For Love That Turn Out To Pay The Best.

My Father, Who Was A Sergeant In The Raf During The Second World War, Was Killed In A Hitchhiking Accident While Returning Home On Compassionate Leave. As A Result, My Mother Had To Get Work, As A Nurse, And At Seven The Raf Put Me Into A Boarding School And Ex-orphanage Called The Royal Wolverhampton School.

I Got Used To Dealing With Groups Of Boys And Getting On With Life In Unpleasant Circumstances And Being Smart And Funny And Subversive At The Expense Of Authority.

Talent Is Always More Interesting - Ambition Is Not Interesting. If You Have Talent, You Have To Find Ways Of Expressing It, But You May Not Be A Success In The World's Terms.

When We Graduated [ From Cambridge], We Were Grabbed Right Into Television. I Was Grabbed Straight Into The Practice Of Writing Comedy. It Was All Writing And Performing. You Wrote Something In Order For You To Perform It.